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Frank A. Verrastro, Director of the Energy and National Security Program at CSIS, delivered the statement, "A More Secure, Reliable, Sustainable, And Affordable Energy Future", to the Senate Bipartisan Energy Summit.

Johanna Mendelson Forman, Senior Associate in the Americas Program, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.

Stephen Morrison, Director of the CSIS Africa Program, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs.

Robert J. Einhorn, a senior adviser with the International Security Program, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  The testimony was related to the recent report The U.S.-Russia Civil Nuclear Agreement A Framework for Cooperation.

Jon Alterman, director of CSIS's Middle East Program, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia.

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Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Africa program, delivered testimony on "China in Africa: Implications for U.S. Policy" before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs.

CSIS Trustees Richard L. Armitage and Joseph S. Nye Jr., who are co-chairs of the CSIS Commission on Smart Power, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on "Implementing Smart Power: Setting an Agenda for National Security Reform."

Appendix to Armitage-Nye Joint Testimony before U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Transcipt of the complete Armitage-Nye Joint Testimony before U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Ambassador Felix Rohatyn, a CSIS trustee, testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs about the need to revitalize investment in America’s aging and ailing infrastructure.

Rohatyn, who with Senator Warren Rudman co-chaired the CSIS Commission on Public Infrastructure, testified on the potential of an infrastructure bank — one of the key recommendations of the Commission. "[O]ur commission proposed a new type of government effort to spur the rebuilding of public infrastructure — a National Infrastructure Bank that will refocus our national infrastructure policy on those projects that generate the most significant returns. Such a new facility would allow us to treat the renewal of our country’s roads and bridges, schools and water lines, airports and air traffic control systems, ports and water projects, as investments, and not simply as budget expenditures."

The hearing was designed to inform the Committee on ideas for new methods to fund and prioritize infrastructure projects. Senators Chris Dodd and Chuck Hagel, who also gave introductory remarks at the hearing, have introduced a bill to create a $60 billion infrastructure investment bank. Dodd and Hagel also served as commissioners on the CSIS Public Infrastructure Commission, and drew inspiration from the indepently researched report to draft their bill.

CSIS does not take positions on pending legislation.

SEN. DODD'S REMARKS (pdf) | SEN. HAGEL'S REMARKS (pdf)